# Two (or more) songs in one! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776 "2002-04-26T14:39:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/1 "2002-04-26T14:39:53Z")
I bring up this topic because it seems like every time I’m in the car with my mother, Skynyrd’s _Free Bird_ comes on the radio (it’s Kansas…). And always, towards the end, when the guitars are all wailin’ to the point that a cat could be getting tortured in the studio and you’d never know the difference, my mother can’t take it, and makes me change the station. After awhile, I learned to anticipate these this in advance, and whenever I heard the coo-ey, melodic opening strains of _Free Bird_, I’d change the station. Trouble is, she never recognizes the _beginning_ of the song as The Song She Hates, and so wonders WHY I’m changing the station when this happens. By the time the song nears its end, she recognizes it (and the station gets changed), but by then she’s already had to suffer (and is complaining bitterly about having been a victim of Musical Bait-and-Switch). Happens every time. Anyway, point is, what other songs can you think of with more than one key melody/rhythm? Two more off the top of my head: _Layla_–Eric Clapton _Band on the Run_–Wings Oh, and the Blood, Sweat, and Tears version of _God Bless the Child_. You? ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/2 "2002-04-26T14:45:55Z")
_Dream On_ – Aerosmith (Scary how quickly that came to me!) ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/3 "2002-04-26T14:48:17Z")
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (kinda like three songs in one) Led Zeppelin - Hairway to Stephen Wings - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Beatles - A Day in the Life ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/4 "2002-04-26T14:55:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Why A Duck \* > \*\*Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (kinda like three songs in one) > > \*\* OMG! Why didn’t I think of that, especially given my special affinity for that one scene in _Wayne’s World_? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/5 "2002-04-26T15:32:07Z")
Meat Loaf’s “Bat out of Hell” and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” come immediately to mind, but a lot of Steinman’s songs switch key and rhythm. And then there’s also Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/6 "2002-04-26T15:38:42Z")
Styx, “Come Sail Away” Also, there’s the very odd ending to Chicago’s “Hard to Say I’m Sorry.” I still don’t understand just how that hard, fast part got tacked onto the end of what was otherwise a soft ballad… ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/7 "2002-04-26T15:46:45Z")
Sloan “Suppose They Close The Door” ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/8 "2002-04-26T20:06:42Z")
Beatles - “Happiness is a Warm Gun” Radiohead - “Paranoid Android” ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/9 "2002-04-26T20:16:04Z")
Steven Stills “Love the One You’re With” ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/10 "2002-04-26T20:36:40Z")
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult “Locomotive Breath” by Jethro Tull “Thick as a Brick” by Jethro Tull (45+ minute song) “Fire on High” by ELO “Feelin’ That Way” by Journey “Foolin’” by Def Leppard “Crazy on You” by Heart “Carry on Wayward Son” by Kansas “Life’s Been Good” by Joe Walsh “Darling Nikki” by Prince “Isn’t it Time?” by the Babies “The Way You Make Me Feel” by Michael Jackson “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/11 "2002-04-26T20:39:18Z")
If you count the Alan Parsons Project’s “Sirius” and “Eye in the Sky” together as one song, I imagine it would qualify. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/12 "2002-04-26T20:56:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bordelond \* > \*\*If you count the Alan Parsons Project’s “Sirius” and “Eye in the Sky” together as one song, I imagine it would qualify. \*\* Ditto if you count _Your Move_ and _All Good People_, by Yes, as one song (which is how they’re usually played on the radio), or Boston’s _Foreplay/Long Time_. Good call. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/13 "2002-04-26T21:26:14Z")
Some real oldies: Beethoven–“Pathetique”-- sonata for piano, movement 1. Rossini–Overture to William Tell. Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand–“No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/14 "2002-04-26T21:29:13Z")
It might be a stretch, but what about “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” by CSN (or was it CSNY)? “No Sugar Tonight & New Mother Nature” by The Guess Who. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/15 "2002-04-26T21:33:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by easy e \* > \*\*It might be a stretch, but what about “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” by CSN (or was it CSNY)? > \*\* Not a stretch at all. And has that song been named in the “Songs that name other people” thread? ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/16 "2002-04-26T21:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*Donna Summer and Barbara Streisand–“No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” \*\* Ohhhh-ho-ho-hoh… Good one, **capacitor**! ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/17 "2002-04-26T21:40:13Z")
I was about to do “Thick as a Brick”, myself. Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” “Songs From the Wood” and “Heavy Horses” by Jethro Tull “Age of Aquarius” and “Where’s the Sunshine?” by The Fifthe Dimension, since they’re usually played together ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/18 "2002-04-26T22:32:36Z")
_Killer/Papa Was a Rolling Stone_ by George Michael. Hate the first part, can tolerate the second. jayjay ---
**Author:** ![deux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@deux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deux)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/19 "2002-04-27T04:55:21Z")
Battery – Metallica Hero of the Day – Metallica Young Lust – Metallica Grand Wazoo (Several songs on this album) – Mother’s of Invention Hello Goodbye – Beatles A Day in the Life – Beatles Live and Let Die – Wings (McCartney) Dream On – Aerosmith The Court of the Crimson King (Several songs on this album) – King Crimson Welcome to the Jungle – Guns & Roses Iron Man – Black Sabbath Shine On You Crazy Diamond – Pink Floyd Everything – Lifehouse Giving In – Adema Waffle – SevenDust Vampirella – Inkubus Sukkubus When I Am Queen – Jack Off Jill In My Dreams I Can Fly – Evergreen Terrace ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776/20 "2002-04-27T16:48:02Z")
How about _Scarborough Fair_ and _Canticle_? They’re two different songs, and they’re sung at the same time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-or-more-songs-in-one/105776.md?page=2)